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Haven't played for three months

I haven't played for three months and was looking over the new update. I was playing every night through December '12 and the pool of Kinnies was ever dwindling b/c prob. in GW2. Thought I might log in again after I have caught up on work and see if the Kin has its numbers back up - not so much fun just rebuilding Hytbold.

No, you haven't missed that much really. Rohan is all right, nice region; mounted combat is eehhh, only really useful in a handful of places, like warbands; grinding for gear has taken on a whole new terrifying reality, with the new loot assignment system and rare items from specific instance clusters.

Ettenmoors is still the Ettenmoors, the landscape and things you aim for might be slightly different, but the method is still the same.

Hytbold is... a bit strange. Basically, there is a ruined town in Rohan. You can do daily quests to gain tokens to rebuild it and rebuilding it will give you access to armour sets and other things. The armour isn't bad. It's supposed to be a high level alternative to raiding for set armour.

Currently the flavour of the month for 85s is the new Erebor instance cluster, which has some nice gear, symbols for 85 first ages and set armour to be had (although, one of the instances is shut right now, so some people can't do the deed to get the armour)

Super Monsters Ate My Condo!

Originally Posted by Piff

Hi Davadin!

No, you haven't missed that much really. Rohan is all right, nice region; mounted combat is eehhh, only really useful in a handful of places, like warbands; grinding for gear has taken on a whole new terrifying reality, with the new loot assignment system and rare items from specific instance clusters.

Ettenmoors is still the Ettenmoors, the landscape and things you aim for might be slightly different, but the method is still the same.

Hytbold is... a bit strange. Basically, there is a ruined town in Rohan. You can do daily quests to gain tokens to rebuild it and rebuilding it will give you access to armour sets and other things. The armour isn't bad. It's supposed to be a high level alternative to raiding for set armour.

Currently the flavour of the month for 85s is the new Erebor instance cluster, which has some nice gear, symbols for 85 first ages and set armour to be had (although, one of the instances is shut right now, so some people can't do the deed to get the armour)

If you play a dps class a lot, crit has been changed a bit, be aware.

Interesting! Thank you, and do allow me to pose a few more questions (no spoilers please, i love enjoying the lore (or whatever left of it) in this game:

- so, for 85s, there are Hytbold armors, "raid set armors", and new Erebor instance clusters? which one is the raid? Epic quests?
- so Rohan mounter combat is meh, but is it *required* or even *recommended* for any part of the game? Or one can simply avoid mounted combat altogether and still enjoy the game?
- can you do mounted combat in the 'moors??????

Originally Posted by Gibar

The wolf lords has a file uploader so we can easily share screen shots and stuff.

Your rank 7 or 8 or whatever power ranger Flash-hands picture is in there.
Its legendary, to say the least.

- so, for 85s, there are Hytbold armors, "raid set armors", and new Erebor instance clusters? which one is the raid? Epic quests?
- so Rohan mounter combat is meh, but is it *required* or even *recommended* for any part of the game? Or one can simply avoid mounted combat altogether and still enjoy the game?
- can you do mounted combat in the 'moors??????!

Battle for Erebor, Fires of Smaug, both 12-person lair raids; and Flight to the Lonely Mountain, which is also 12-person, but is currently our only raid without any kind of boss (it's also shut right now). You have to do the deeds (which are lv 85 only) for these to unlock the armour sets, BUT there are also some gold items to be had from the raids themselves, which are class-specific armours. The raids are all fully scaled and they open at 20, so you sometimes have lowbies with low-lvl versions of the gold items. Scaled instances everywhere.

The Epic quests are still there, no new ones yet.

Unfortunately there are some quests in Rohan that require mounted combat and a lot of the enemies will be mounted. If you want to do warbands at all, you'll need to be on a war-steed (I hate warbands, some people love them). I personally haven't done very much with my war steed. Don't outright avoid it though. You can't do mounted combat in the Moors, or anywhere else outside Rohan right now.

Hey dude,
The cold in Ontario is catching up with ya so you decided to lotro it up? Hehe. You have not missed much and should be able to catch up in no time. Enjoy!

wassup my little hobbit minstrel destroyer?

its another snowday here in Ottawa. blah.

yeah im half way through Isengard now (Saruman is a jerk!) and it's really good storylines and quests. nothing completely groundbreaking, but im enjoying the scenery at least. give me a few more weeks to hit 85 and i'll join u back in the moors, saying hi to old creepsies.

Originally Posted by Piff

Battle for Erebor, Fires of Smaug, both 12-person lair raids; and Flight to the Lonely Mountain, which is also 12-person, but is currently our only raid without any kind of boss (it's also shut right now). You have to do the deeds (which are lv 85 only) for these to unlock the armour sets, BUT there are also some gold items to be had from the raids themselves, which are class-specific armours. The raids are all fully scaled and they open at 20, so you sometimes have lowbies with low-lvl versions of the gold items. Scaled instances everywhere.

The Epic quests are still there, no new ones yet.

Unfortunately there are some quests in Rohan that require mounted combat and a lot of the enemies will be mounted. If you want to do warbands at all, you'll need to be on a war-steed (I hate warbands, some people love them). I personally haven't done very much with my war steed. Don't outright avoid it though. You can't do mounted combat in the Moors, or anywhere else outside Rohan right now.

interesting! so, those "lair raids"... are they all from The Hobbit era? lol

and whats warbands?

ah, no mounted combat in moors. why not? let us have those, and let wargs have Goblins riding them doing ranged attacks lol

interesting! so, those "lair raids"... are they all from The Hobbit era? lol

and whats warbands?

Yup, with the Hobbit film out, we're seeing a lot of tie-ins, the Road to Erebor cluster has, seven(?) instances total now; three raids, three 3-mans and one 6-man.

Warbands are mounted encounters on the Rohan landscape. When you see people calling for help with Bugud, that's a warband. I don't really do them very often, so I don't know that much. As you get near the warband, you'll get a landscape quest to kill it (which is a new thing in Rohan, landscape quests), which will give a box when you do. I don't know what can come out of them apart from marks/medallions/seals and the occasional warsteed cosmetic item, some people have got nice things, I never did, but then I'd have to do them more, I think.